U8s Eagles v Shawside (A) - 1st Apr 2023

Match Report

5-2 loss for the u8 eagles today against a decent Shawside Junior's Inter team, playing two 20s.

It was a great first half, Eagles just nicking it at the end to go in 0-1 up. Some good work in net from Sheadun kept us in the game.

Couldn't of had a better start scoring straight after the break 0-2 up & in cruise control.

Then it went wrong with players arguing between themselves and Shawside brought on a no9 who we just couldn't deal with.

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The "trick to this" is to be corrupt, even when we are talking about kids football 🤦🏻. The "trick" is that you dual register players, with different leagues (many times this doesn't even happen as egos outweigh rules) - The parents of children that aren't quite good enough for genuine academies flock to people, gangs, that say they are scouts & maybe are 🤷🏼‍♂️. They then set up their own leagues & clubs, but do things like today to avoid "level" competition, in favour of promoting themselves. This gives the league,club,parent,child an ego boost. Just not our style, even if authorities allow it 🤷🏼‍♂️

Everything went to the No.9 as they banged in 4 goals in a crazy 10 minute period in the second half.

Solid effort from the boys today. I must say it was a good watch, just frustrating at times.

It will come 💪💪⚽️🦅